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marsh-grass, and accordingly set off in search of it. We were crossing a small open place when 
we started a bird, which Granberg, who was on first, said was a Waxwing (Ampelis garrulus) ; 
and having my gun loaded with dust-shot, I followed it up and succeeded in shooting it. It 
proved to be an adult female, and had evidently been incubating. We searched all the bushes 
and trees near, in hopes of finding a nest, but without any success ; and as the mosquitoes were 
very troublesome, we determined to find the hut, take a nap, and continue the search afterwards. 
We soon did find it, and, after smoking out the mosquitoes and stopping up the smoke-hole, 
turned in on some marsh-grass, and did not awake until pretty late in the day. After breakfast 
we separated to explore the island ; and Heikel and myself, meeting soon after on the opposite 
side, went on in company, but had no success, only finding a few small birds... .. 
“<« We had quite given up all hopes of finding the Waxwing’s nest, when, as I was crossing 
a little barren to join Heikel, I saw, in a small pine tree close to where he was standing, a nest 
with several young ones in it sitting bolt upright, just as Grebes sit. Going nearer, I instantly 
knew them to be Waxwings. We threw off our game-bags; and while he stood below, I climbed 
up to the nest, which was in the fork between the main stem and the first branch, and not above 
nine or ten feet from the ground. The moment I touched it, the young ones (five in number) 
flew out. I jumped down, made a cut at the largest with my cap, and secured him; but Heikel 
did not get one. Directly the young one which I had caught began to cry out, several Waxwings 
flew from the neighbouring thicket—all, however, keeping out of gunshot except two, which came 
close round me, and both of which I shot. I then sat down and imitated, as well as I could, the 
call of the old birds. I was soon rewarded for my trouble by a young one coming out of a 
blueberry bush close by and calling lustily. Heikel and I gave chase, and secured him. 
Granberg, who had heard my two shots, then coming up, we commenced a diligent search for 
the other three young ones, but had to give it up as hopeless, owing to the thickness of the 
underscrub. I then climbed up again and took the nest away carefully, so as to preserve the 
shape, and to my great delight found one egg in it. We hunted for several hours in the higher 
part of the island for another nest; but, although we saw about nine old birds, we did not 
succeed in finding another nest. We did not shoot any more, hoping to find nests there at some 
future period. 
“«We returned to Uleaborg the same evening, when I skinned my birds. We ought to 
have made an equal division of the spoil; but neither Granberg nor Heikel would hear of any 
division ; consequently I have still two old birds and two young ones, besides the nest and egg, 
in my possession. I regret to say I did not look to see what the young birds had been fed upon ; 
but when I took the nest, I found one or two of last year’s dried cranberries in it. 
“<¢] arranged with Granberg for him to go to Sand6én in 1859 (for we had kept it secret in 
the town as to where we had found the nest) to see if he could find another nest; but he wrote 
to me that, the autumn after we had been there, the chief portion of the forest in Sandén had 
been consumed by fire, and that it was therefore useless to go there.’ ” 
Since the discovery of its breeding-haunts in Lapland by Mr. Wolley, and in Finland by 
myself, the Waxwing has been ascertained to breed in Norway. Mr. R. Collett, in a useful little 
work on the ornithology of Norway, just published by him, writes as follows :—“ The first reliable 
observation proving the occurrence of this bird as a breeding species on Norwegian soil was made 
